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“The club would like to thank the coach for having written a new page in Juventus' history with the victory of the ninth-consecutive championship, the culmination of a personal journey that led him to climb all the divisions of Italian football.” … [Read more...] about Transfer news LIVE: Maurizio Sarri SACKED by Juventus – Liverpool, Tottenham, Man City, Leeds, Villa, Everton updates

Mannion & Co Those rustic, home-baked breads and beautiful cakes at the front of the shop aren’t mere window-dressing. This deli-cafe delivers on that advertised promise. Owner/chef Andrew Burton learned his trade in some of Britain’s best kitchens, including North Yorkshire’s renowned Star Inn, and he brings a similar rigour to Mannion & Co’s more modest menu of cheese and charcuterie platters, gourmet sandwiches and daily hot specials, such as eggs Benedict, rarebit or, more adventurously, Alsace bacon and boudin noir with fried eggs and toast. On a warm day, you might prefer to plot yourself in the courtyard garden, but to get the best value, take away a haul from the deli-counter and perch on the wall around the corner to eat and admire York Minster at your leisure. Mannion & Co’s fist-sized sausage rolls, its knock-out Yorkshire curd tart and signature hot pork sandwich (the meat splendidly moist with good depth of flavour, rimmed with … [Read more...] about Top 10 budget restaurants, cafes and pubs in York

Margate is fast becoming a food destination: there's Michelin-starred modern Indian cooking at Ambrette (01843 231504, theambrette.co.uk), and the wonderful Lifeboat pub (thelifeboat-margate.com) serves real ales and Broadstairs pies. BeBeached cafe (bebeached.co.uk) at the end of the pier is a great spot for a sundowner. Don't miss the town's longstanding, pre-hipster attractions, such as the Shell Grotto (shellgrotto.co.uk) and nearby RG Scott's antiques emporium (scottsmargate.co.uk). To embrace the town's contemporary identity, make for Blink Margate, a huge live collaboration between musicians and 100 local people on 27 August (blinkmargate.org). … [Read more...] about Sea change: east Kent reinvents itself with art beside the seaside

"The stories in ye papers of this horrid Woman Hater are not exaggerated," wrote Lady Newdigate to her husband in May 1790. "Not a night passes in which some female is not dreadfully wounded." Between 1788 and 1790 the London Monster slashed more than 50 women with a knife or scalpel; sometimes he lashed out with a claw-like glove or hid a stiletto in a nosegay and asked women to sniff it. London was gripped by "Monster Mania", well documented here by Bondeson; eventually Rhynwick Williams, a 23-year-old maker of artificial flowers, was convicted of the crimes, though the evidence against him was shaky. The London Monster appears to have been the first serial sadistic slasher, and Bondeson broadens his inquiry to look at other perverted by-products of city life, such as the piqueurs of Paris, the Mädchenschneider of Augsburg, the Connecticut Jabber, the Halifax Slasher and the Monkey Man of Delhi, as well as various frotteurs and hair fetishists. One impotent young man in Hamburg … [Read more...] about Monster mania

The Harris's List show that women often shared accommodation with other sex workers or lodged with ordinary families, such as green grocers and cabinet makers. Although Covent Garden was the centre of sin, filled with theatres, taverns, coffee houses and bath houses, there was no designated red-light district, and women lived in virtually every neighbourhood, from Fitzrovia to Mayfair, from Holborn to the City. … [Read more...] about ‘That started with a bang in every sense!’: BBC viewers are stunned by raunchy new drama Harlots about brothels in 18th century London – featuring sex in broad daylight and Fleabag’s Hugh Skinner in a VERY racy role